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Mr. Blythe supported the City of Laguna Beach in developing a competitive RFP for solid waste and recycling collection services. The RFP was designed to align with the City's forward-thinking sustainability goals and meet State diversion requirements. Key features included the electrification of the collection fleet, the integration of loT technology to monitor bin fullness and contamination levels, and an innovative rate structure that incentivizes waste reduction and minimization for both businesses and residents. Mr. Blythe has extensive experience designing and modeling rate structures to assess the revenue impacts of changes in service offerings required to expand recycling and organics programs, ensuring compliance with state laws and the achievement of local sustainability goals. To this end, he has used waste characterization data gathered from restaurants to develop strategic tools to guide franchise-operated locations with optimizing solid waste, recycling, and organics recycling services based on readily available annual store revenue data. Mr. Blythe holds a Master of Business Administration-(MBA) in Sustainable Management from Presidio Graduate School in San Francisco, one of the first and only graduate-level institutions to offer an MBA where sustainability is integrated throughout the entire course curriculum. During his coursework at Presidio, Trevor explored market-based solutions for returning key nutrients from organic waste back to the soil. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Sciences from the University of California, Santa Barbara with an emphasis on Geographic Information Systems. Mr. Blythe has taught two courses as adjunct faculty in the Sustainability and Resource Management program at Irvine Valley College, SRM 95—The Business Case for Sustainability and SRM 90—Sustainability for Communities. Lindo Furbee JD Title: Director Time with EcoNomics, Inc.: 4 years Education: BA University of California, Riverside; luris Doctorate at California Desert Trial Academy College of Law Specializations: Contract Monitoring and Management, Legislation Implementation, Hauler Contract Procurement, Transition to New Hauler Agreements, Programming and Tracking Systems, Development of Outreach Campaigns Ordinance, RFP Drafting, SB 1383 Program Development, CalRecycle Compliance and Reporting Ms. Furbee joined EcoNomics in October 2021. Her first assignment was a year-long, three- day-per-week residency with the City of Newport Beach's Municipal Operations Division, where she supported finalizing the City's residential franchise negotiations and oversaw the launch of a citywide organics collection program. In this role, she managed the hauler's rollout of a third organics cart to all households, ensuring both the deployment and related educational campaigns were carried out in alignment with franchise agreement terms. Ms. Furbee facilitated weekly coordination meetings with City staff and the hauler to address operational challenges, resolve customer service concerns, support SB 1383 contamination monitoring compliance, and ensure ratepayers received full value from the services provided. 12 Doc ID: 5c24elf9f8de95b25flBcb9a42f177d25d99d112